# Additional spaces when renaming files
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/additional-spaces-when-renaming-files/54088
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 16, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/additional-spaces-when-renaming-files/54088 "2021-08-16T22:07:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@mred436](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mred436)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/additional-spaces-when-renaming-files/54088/1 "2021-08-16T22:07:40Z")
I am having a problem with Duplicates. The MP3Tag Shows %artist% - %title% This is what it should come out as Granger Smith - Country Things.mp3 But i am getting extra spaces in artist and Title. Kip Moore - Good Life .mp3 No mater what i try it will not fix the the problem, When i copy music to my files it will copy a song i already have because of the extra space. Help, Thanks ed.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2021, 7:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/additional-spaces-when-renaming-files/54088/2 "2021-08-17T07:49:29Z")
Please check carefully if you don't have an extra space at the end of your `%title%`.
If you click on the content in the Title field in the left Mp3tag [Tag panel](https://docs.mp3tag.de/customization/tag-panel) and press CTRL + A you should see if there is a space too much. Just delete it and save this change with a click on the  symbol .
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/additional-spaces-when-renaming-files/54088/3 "2021-08-17T12:14:46Z")
If the added spaces are something that could have happened more than once, perhaps a look at the FAQs gives a hint on how to solve that problem without the need to edit each track manually:
> [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/10):
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> How to remove/trim leading and trailing spaces [Video tutorial for these actions](http://www.vimeo.com/7756545) Leading spaces: Action type: Replace with regular expressions Field: \_TAG Regular expression: ^\s+ Replace matches with: ^ matches the beginning of the string. Then \s+ searches for all whitespaces till a different char occurs. The whitespaces found will be replaced by nothing and, thus, deleted. Trailing spaces: Action type: Replace with regular expressions Field: \_TAG Regular expression: \s+$ Replace matc…
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/additional-spaces-when-renaming-files/54088/4 "2026-02-09T12:29:22Z")